Samuel L. Southard

Samuel Lewis Southard (9 June 1787-26 June 1842) was a US Senator from New Jersey (DR) from 26 January 1821 to 3 March 1823 (succeeding James J. Wilson and preceding Joseph McIlvaine) and from 4 March 1833 to 26 June 1842 (succeeding Mahlon Dickerson and preceding William L. Dayton), Secretary of the Navy from 16 September 1823 to 4 March 1829 (succeeding Smith Thompson and preceding John Branch), and Governor of New Jersey from 26 October 1832 to 27 February 1833 (succeeding Peter Dumont Vroom and preceding Elias P. Seeley).

Biography
Samuel Lewis Southard was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey in 1787, and he worked as a teacher and a lawyer before being elected to the state legislature during the 1810s as a Democratic-Republican. Southard served in the US Senate from 1821 to 1823, when he was appointed Secretary of the Navy under President James Monroe. He served until 1829, and he served as Governor of New Jersey from 1832 to 1833 before returning to the US Senate from 1833 until his death in 1842. He died in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1842.